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Notepad is a basic text editor included in all versions of Windows since Windows 1.0.

Notepad is a basic text editor for editing plain text files. It has been included in all versions of Microsoft Windows since Windows 1.0. Unlike WordPad, the other text editor included in Windows, Notepad has no formatting capabilities and offers only the most basic functions.

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Opened a JPG picture with notepad, pasted all the "text" to a new notepad file, changed to .JPG and it no longer opens. Why?

This phenomenon has been leaving me questions to ask. Here is the detailed experiment, my OS is Windows 7 x64 SP1: I changed a picture (JPG) file to TXT by simply changing its extension (or one could just choose to open the JPG with notepad, same…
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How to untoggle Right-to-Left text in Notepad?

I seem to have accidentally hit a couple hot-keys and my Notepad is now showing text from Right-to-Left. What was the hot-key combo and what can I do to reverse it back to Left-to-Right?
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Ctrl+Backspace inserts a small box instead of erasing

When I press Ctrl+Backspace, sometimes a small square is inserted, instead of the entire word being erased. The problem only happens in some text boxes; in others the shortcut works like it should. Start menu search box: works Notepad: doesn’t…
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How can I pipe console output directly to Notepad?

I'm running an application on the command prompt or a Git shell, and I would like to get the output into Notepad, for easier review and editing later on. I tried the following, but I always get an empty instance of Notepad: diff file1.txt file2.txt…
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Windows 10 Notepad can't find text

When I paste this into Notepad on Windows 10: "first_name"=>"M", "surname"=>"C", "country"=>"Australia" and then try to find the string "name" with Ctrl+F, it comes up blank: Is Notepad's Find function completely useless or am I missing something?
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How to Insert a Null Character (ASCII 00) in Notepad?

I want to insert a null character (ASCII Value 00) into an open file in Notepad. A program that is reading this file is expecting 00 at the end, but it's getting the ASCII value for space - 20. How can I achieve this?
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Notepad ignoring linebreaks

Most documents I'm opening in notepad.exe under windows 7 lately, there are no linebreaks... everything just runs together. The same documents in any other program, even previewed directly in Explorer, will show the linebreaks correctly. this is…
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How can I 'select to end of file' in Notepad?

Temporarily stuck with Notepad, I'd like to know if there is any better or quicker way of selecting from here to the end of the file than moving the mouse to the bottom of the screen and then vigorously from side to side (which is more exercise than…
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How do I replace Notepad in Windows 7?

I use Notepad2. I love Notepad2. How do I replace Notepad with Notepad2 in Windows 7, so I never use the old version of Notepad again?
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Editing HTML source code with Google Chrome

In Internet Explorer I can open a local .html file and edit it by selecting "Source" in the "View" menu," make a quick change, and then "Refresh" (reload) the web page. How can I do that with Google Chrome? Can I have the .html file open in Windows…
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Why do Excel line breaks not transfer into Notepad?

When copying a cell with line breaks in Excel and pasting it into Notepad, the text is pasted onto one line. Why is that?
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Notepad Ctrl-Backspace behavior

Text fields in almost all software erase a word when ctrl+backspace is pressed. However, Notepad behaves differently, and inserts a character which is: `` (I copy-pasted it here. I'm not sure if it is visible. It looks like a rectangle in…
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Changing the default ANSI to UTF-8 in Notepad

I got an e-book reader a few months ago, and I finally figured out why it doesn't display .txt files correctly. It doesn't like ANSI. It has no problem with the other 3 types of coding notepad provides. For a reason I chose UTF-8 and decoded all…
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Auto Insert date into Notepad

I am using Notepad - the standard plain old plain old in Windows 10 Home 64. I had been typing up some notes and one of my sentences was not correct - I accidentally pasted some text over what I was typing in: So I was typing this: DISPLAY and…
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Is it possible to change the default tab-size in Notepad?

Occasionally, I use Notepad to edit some form of code/html, which means I need to tab a lot. The default indent size when hitting tab is eight spaces when ideally I'd like it be four. Is there any way to change this setting?
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